Hindi Film Industry woke up to the shocking news of Vinod
Khanna's death yesterday. Numerous Bollywood celebs including Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi
Kapoor, Jackie Shroff and his wife Ayesha Shroff attended the late actor's
funeral.
Post this, the senior Bachchan took to his blog to pen down
an emotional message over the loss of an acquaintance.
“Motionless... still... eyes shut in perpetuity .. a form on
wooden logs .. covered .. flames about .. and a life turned to ashes,” Amitji posted.
He then went on to describe the first time he saw the actor.
“I first saw him entering the Ajanta Arts office in Bandra, of Sunil Dutt,
where I was making my way to seek a job... a most good looking handsome young
man... a body in elegant frame... a swagger in his walk... and a gentle smile
as he looked towards me... it was 1969 .. he was working in the Ajanta Arts
film, ‘Man ka Meet’ .. I was struggling to get a role, any role, anywhere,” posted
Big B.
Further, Mr. Bachchan recalled both good and the bad times
he had spent with the well-known actor.
“In time we met again within the same precincts .. he and I
were working in the same film of Dutt Saheb, ‘Reshma aur Shera’ .. look trials
in the office of the film .. travel and sittings on the story .. Thapa saheb,
Ali Raza, Sukhdev and those all night meets, most novel for me .. my first
brush with the way the film industry functioned .. the time for the shoot and
the excitement of travel on a location in Jaisalmer .. the months we spent
together and after .. driving in the scorching heat of the deserts of Rajasthan
to the location, Pochina, in the sands of nowhere near civilisation .. living
under one tent - Vinod, Ranjit, Thapa Saheb, Ali Raza saheb about seven of us
in the same tent .. then similar number at a make shift residence in the city
of Jaisalmer - Amrish Puri joining us in that room filled with all of us,
living laughing, working .. carefree days .. the rigors of that location and
its environs ..On return from the location his continued connect with me .. he
a big star .. but always most humble with selfless concern for others .. the
rides he would take me on, in his recently acquired Beetle VolksWagen, yellow
in color .. his generosity in smuggling me into the only Disco Club in the city
at the Taj, where he was a member, and I not even remotely in any state to
become one .. his marriage to Geetanjali, whom he and we all fondly called
Gitly .. the birth of his sons, Rahul and Akshay, whom he often brought on to
the sets of Amar Akbar Anthony,” an emotional Big B posted.
He also stated about the remorseful incident with Vinodji.
“That guilt-ridden incident when I had to fling a glass in a scene towards him
and it accidentally hitting his chin, cutting him open right through to his
teeth .. the remorse regret and guilt within me to date for that unforgiving
accident .. rushing him to his doctor, late at night, getting stitched up,
driving with him to his house to settle him in and to just keep apologising for
this horrific accidental slip,” Big B posted.
Prior in the day, it was also reported that the actor had
left an interview mid-way to visit the hospital as soon as he heard the news of
Vinod Ji's death. Vinod Khanna died in a Mumbai's hospital at the age of
70 on Thursday morning.
Vinod Ji's death has undeniably left a void which is
impossible to fill.
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